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1821. May 14. First Lines Constitutional Instruments
Delays

John Bull is Gulliver under Liluputian chains insensibly applied.

One great misfortune attendant on the use made of
these instruments of misrule is attended. Force and intimidation
are not applied without special and strenuous exertions on the part
of possessors of power, specially directed to the production of obsequiousness —
the desired effect. Corruption and delusion are produced by him not
only without any strenuous exertions, but without so much as any
expence in the outside of thought: are produced by him just as well
when asleep as when awake.

To exercise corruptive influence to any amount — to produce
corrupt obsequiousness to any amount — it is not necessary that either
endeavour, or so much as desire so to do, should have place in his
mind. All that is necessary, is the desire and the endeavour which,
in his situation, is of course followed by accomplishment — the endeavour
to produce and of course the production of waste. In a word,
all that is necessary to him is, on every occasion that presenting itself,
to yield to the appetite for money in his own breast, or in the breasts
of any individual or individuals connected with him in the way of
interest or sympathy: for the purpose of their individual gratification
the money is put into their pockets: thereupon, by the eventual expectation
of the like benefit from the like source, corruptive. Obsequiousness
is produced in the breast and conduct of ten, twenty, or perhaps
fifty times as many breasts as those in which the qualification
attached to the receipt and expenditure of the money was produced.

Identifier: | JB/036/050/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-05-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	050	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10974
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